Food Safety said it had issued an immediate recall of the cucumbers that also applies to tomatoes and eggplants. The agency said that some of the vegetables may have been sold and it is urging consumers to throw them away. The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority said cucumbers from a contaminated shipment also went to Hungary and Luxembourg. There were no immediate reports of illness there. The cucumbers transited Germany, where at least nine people have died and almost 300 have been sickened by hemolytic uremic syndrome. HUS is a rare complication arising from infection associated with the E. coli bacterium. Almost a dozen people with HUS have been hospitalized in Sweden in the past two weeks after travel to Germany. In Denmark, eight people are hospitalized with E.coli infection that could be linked to the outbreak. A spokesman for the European Union said Sunday that two greenhouses in Spain that were identified as the source of the contaminated cucumbers had ceased activies. The water and soil there are being analyzed to see whether they were the problem or the contamination occured elsewhere, said Frederic Vincent, the spokesman. The results of the tests are exptected Tuesday or f Alibaba, of which Yahoo owns roughly 40%. The companies, which have traded barbs over the action, have taken steps to resolve the dispute, although no solution has been put forward publicly. Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz, co-founder Jerry Yang and Chief Financial Officer Timothy Morse kicked off the investor day with a conversation about the Alipay incident, saying Yahoo, Alibaba and Japan's Softbank Corp. (9984.TO), which also owns a large stake in Alibaba, are making "significant progress" in resolving the problem. Bartz also stood by Yahoo's approach to the huge Chinese market. "The core strategy of investing in Alibaba Group has clearly been the right way to invest in the China market," she said. Bartz noted the companies have agreed that the value of the relationship between Alipay and Alibaba's online retail marketplace, Taobao, must be preserved within Taobao. They also agreed that Alibaba must be "appropriately compensated" for the value of the Alipay business that isn't linked to Taobao, she said. "All parties are working very hard to come to a resolution that successfully implements these principles," Bartz said. "Alibaba's management is very committed and cooperative in working with Yahoo and Softbank." She added that Yahoo's disclosure about Alipay was "timely and appropriate." She said negotiations between the companies will be kept private. Yahoo has faced criticism for not disclosing the transfer earlier. The company has said it became aware of the change by the end of March. Yahoo shares have dropped 12% since it disclosed Alibaba had transferred ownership of Alipay. In Wednesday trading, they recently rose about 1% to $16.27. Yahoo has been restructuring into a more focused company, though the strategy has yet to yield convincing results. A major part of Yahoo's turnaround plan, a sea